Comments on: Google Mistakenly Labels The Internet as Malware http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Malware http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159476 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:04:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159476 Good job on Google making sure this problem has not since been repeated. At the same time it is nice to know that I have a choice to use other search engines if it does happen again and that the Internet can never actually be “down” as a whole.

]]> By: Does Google Docs' Security Snafu Bode Ill For Google Health? - HITRUST http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159475 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:06:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159475 [...] on a confidential document, the breach is significant.Also recently, thanks to an unrelated glitch, Google labeled the entire Internet as "Malware." And, going back to 2006, Google has had [...]

]]> By: SHIFT: What Google Gears means for cloud computing | Coded Ink,Inc http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159474 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:41:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159474 [...] search’s 55 minutes of failure last weekend showed the extent to which most computer users rely on the company. Though I love its [...]

]]> By: Pointless Rants » Google De-bursts Its Bubble http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159473 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:17:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159473 [...] Google breaks every search result. [...]

]]> By: Thomas Whitney http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159472 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:12:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159472 Just goes to show that diversity in digital security is absolutely necessary. No use getting all comfortable with one method thinking that everything is going to be taken care of at all times. Geez, what was I thinking!

http://www.justaskgemalto.com

]]> By: Google labels entire Web as ‘malware,’ Web labels Google as ‘monopoly’ | csmonitor.com http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159471 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:09:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159471 [...] GigaOm chief Om Malik blogged that “it shows that Google has become the single point of failure in our digital lives, whether we like it or not. These problems — human errors as [Google] calls them — are not going to go away, as the company becomes bigger, offers more services and extends control on our digital lives.” [...]

]]> By: Frank Paolino http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159470 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:37:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159470 I think Google has (inadvertently) shown everyone how valuable a spam filter is to everyday work. In my own moment of insanity, I tried shutting down our own internal spam filters for one day only, to experience the pain. Unfortunately, I quickly shut the experiment down after only one hour when I discovered that no one at Maysoft was particularly fond of feeling the pain or receiving all of their spam. Where is their sense of adventure?

http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf/d6plinks/FPAO-7NVKRB

]]> By: Sai http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159469 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:07:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159469 This bug outlines how dependent we have become on Google. This Sunday we had to go to a party. The host had to make a lot of preparations for the event and failed to do so as the google searches marked the websites as malware and she was afraid to visit those sites.

We do need a good alternative to Google, something that matches the search results and provides to be a worthy competitor to its ad platform.

]]> By: Google Mistakenly Labels The Internet as Malware | Telecom Update http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159468 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:10:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159468 [...] arose from Google’s efforts to integrate the malware-blocking functionality promoted by collaborator StopBadWare.org, a not-for-profit group. Google confirmed that in a blog post. “What [...]

]]> By: This Is What Happens When All Your Eggs Are In One Basket (Reprised) http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159467 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:18:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159467 [...] Om Malik said it best. This [...]

]]> By: Google’s Human Error | Finley & Cook, PLLC http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159466 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:23:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159466 [...] any sort of glitch, even for a brief 40-minute stretch on a weekend morning. GigaOm editor Om Malik observed, “It shows that Google has become the single point of failure in our digital lives, whether we [...]

]]> By: JohnB http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159465 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:52:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159465 /quote/
First, it shows that Google has become the single point of failure in our digital lives, whether we like it or not.
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…that’s IF you were using Google in the first place.

]]> By: mac http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159464 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:20:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159464 This is not only a simple engineering problem of google, it’s a serious management issue. Time to switch to other search engine… LOL

I like SilkWise now. http://www.silkwise.com because it automatically connects my questions to different experts and always gives good answers.

]]> By: ramster http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159463 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:22:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159463 I wouldn’t call it a single point of failure. When my search (chicken cacciatore) failed via Google, I switched to Yahoo and got what I wanted.

]]> By: Ian Rae http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159462 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:30:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159462 Was it really a mistake? Better safe than sorry!
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]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159461 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:04:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/31/google-mistakenly-labels-the-internet-as-malware/#comment-159461 That’s interesting. I was surfing at that time, and was quite surprised by this. Interestingly, according to Marissa’s explanation ALL URLs should be marked malware. This was not the case. Around all about 1 or 2 links were marked bad on each page, so I wonder.

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